You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.